Disease

Disease is a dispel type that can be inflicted by some bosses and mobs. They exist both as debuffs and, in rare cases, as buffs. Disease debuffs tend to inflict various negative effects to attributes as well as Damage over time, and tend to be long-lasting effects (normally between 5 and 30 minutes). Mobs that cause disease are usually only those with some indicating word in their name, like "diseased", "rabid", or "tainted". Many undead creatures cause disease.

Death knights notably also have an ability called Pestilence that spreads diseases on their target to surrounding targets, including diseases from other players. There was also Gift of Arthas, a Guardian Elixir which gave the imbiber a chance to inflict a disease on the target, this has been changed to add a curse instead.